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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 May 2019

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      This is why we have the Electoral College and not a pure popular vote system. https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1124127669686349824 …

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 May 2019

      As I noted in my Electoral College piece, a presidential candidate who is not even on the ballot in politically homogenous states - as Lincoln wasn't in the South in 1860 - skews the national popular vote.https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 May 2019

      I used this hypothetical example: R candidate wins 48 states by identical 54-46 margins, D wins CA, NY & DC by 75-25 margins, D wins national popular vote. Who should win?pic.twitter.com/832nMi9j88

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 May 2019

      Anyway, I believe the last incumbent president who wasn't on the ballot in all the states was Taft.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 3 May 2019

      Just imagine if, say, Mississippi had come up with an excuse to keep Barack Obama off the ballot.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      6. The California Democrat who was celebrating this plan has blocked me, but you will notice that its explicit intention is to discourage Republican voters from the polls. Which of course is fine with these folks https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1124130934985502720 …

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

      7. Here's the original tweets, if you, too, are blockedpic.twitter.com/EbYIooxFiR

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      8. I see a bunch of folks on the Left have belatedly discovered this thread, so let's address some of the big ones here. This one is of the "but it's OK when we do it" variety. (Also, note: none of those efforts were ever passed by an entire State Senate) https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1124653129025380352 …

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      9. Actually, I used 2016 turnout in every state. And used that for a hypothetical https://twitter.com/_walteriv/status/1124697645409136640 …

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      10. As I noted in my article, a candidate getting 54% of the vote in states he wins but almost zero in the states he loses is not simply a hypothetical. It is what actually happened in 1860 to a Republican named Abe Lincoln. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …https://twitter.com/NICKinNOVA/status/1124690480158183427 …

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      NICKinNOVA @NICKinNOVA
      Voters would simply never breakdown this way, but let’s use this faulty premise to prove your bad faith argument anyway! https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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      11. Actually, "States" is right there in the name of the country. And no, I don't think Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois & Ohio are just empty land with no people.https://twitter.com/MykeCole/status/1124682290905350150 …

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      Myke ColeVerified account @MykeCole
      The person who has the most votes, Dan. It’s what we call “majority rule.” You’re in favor of “most land rule.” We have a name for that type of government. It’s called “feudalism.” https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          12. When you drill down into these responses, this sort of thing is where you end up: abolishing the states https://twitter.com/Hesiod2k11/status/1124658736801382403 …

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          13. The Electoral College is distributed according to population. https://twitter.com/TheWillWu/status/1124657901585539072 …

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          14. Again, as noted, we have a winner-take-all system, and the 54% hypothetical is based on the actual 1860 electionhttps://twitter.com/AlbertoCairo/status/1124637361881718796 …

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          Alberto CairoVerified account @AlbertoCairo
          Hypotheticals must make sense to be useful in an argument. That one doesn't. Also, that type of map looks impressive only because population density varies a lot and neither deep-blue cities nor vast uninhabited regions in many states are shown #HowChartsLie h/t @MollyJongFast https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Ricardo Gutiérrez

          15. This illustrates my other key point about the Electoral College's legitimizing function: situations where nobody gets a majority of the popular vote, so the "winner" can be somebody who got a third of the vote, all of it from one radicalized regionhttps://twitter.com/icaito/status/1124634949452161024 …

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          Ricardo Gutiérrez @icaito
          The Constitution is antiquated and insufficient and it must be amended to get rid of the Electoral College. A true democracy is where one vote equals one voice and a plurality of votes equals winning an election, you pathetic oaf. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          16. This is a genre of response you get a lot from supposedly adult progressives: Conservative: [argue policy or point out that a progressive has misstated the facts] Progressive: Oh boo hoo you poor snowflake. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1124633649222168576 …

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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          17. States have a distinct role in the United States that counties do not. The country is broader & more diverse than any one state. And no state weights counties by population as does the Electoral Collegehttps://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1124636582496153600 …

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          Michael McDonaldVerified account @ElectProject
          This scenario literally happens in some statewide races for offices like governor, replacing states with counties, and strangely we abide by the popular vote within the state https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Elizabeth Picciuto

          18. Again, this ignores the fact that the Electoral College is weighted by population. Texas, for example, has so many electoral votes because it has 28 million peoplehttps://twitter.com/epicciuto/status/1124634500959436801 …

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          Elizabeth PicciutoVerified account @epicciuto
          The D. People have agency and land does not. If there was one Democrat living on the Atlantic ocean (which has just become a state in this scenario), and the whole ocean was thus D-colored blue because of one vote, would someone who endorsed spatial elections think D should win? https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Charles #GetVaxxed!  💉

          19. I submit that my hypothetical, which assumes 2016 turnout in every state & gives the R the same average share in winning states as Lincoln in 1860 (& more in the losing states than Lincoln got) is considerably more realistic than thishttps://twitter.com/charles_gaba/status/1124648192082087936 …

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          Charles #GetVaxxed!  💉Verified account @charles_gaba
          Regarding @baseballcrank's idiotic Electoral College defense: In which I prove how someone could theoretically win the U.S. Presidential election with only 0.00001% of the popular vote: http://acasignups.net/19/03/19/those-who-still-dont-get-how-stupid-electoral-college …
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        10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Jonathan Chait

          20. I don't see the need for that: not how it has historically been done & few states are as vast & diverse as the whole country. But not a terrible idea for, say, California if the districts were regularly re-weighted by pop like the EC.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1124654444715626497 …

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          Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
          Replying to @ElectProject
          I'd be interested if @baseballcrank believes states should adopt an electoral college-like system, in which a party that wins huge vote totals in a couple urban counties and loses everywhere else should lose, even if they get more votes?
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        11. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          21. Again, bear in mind - as noted in my column - that in practical effect, the Electoral College in nearly every case goes to the winner of popular *majorities*; it comes into play mainly where neither candidate gets one.https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ …

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        12. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          22. You: but if we eliminated winner-take-all states, what might the candidate field look like? Me: Let's consider a real-world example:pic.twitter.com/Eoc8YPFLAS

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        13. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          23. As for Trump's tax returns: the norm of candidates releasing their taxes is a valuable one, & both Trump & Romney did themselves political damage by delaying/flouting it. But it's not a job requirement. Until 1916, no presidential candidate even paid income taxes.

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        14. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          24. I'll circle back another day to the Electoral College's historical roots, which tend to be oversimplified by the progressive narrative. This, from a liberal historian, is a useful partial corrective https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/opinion/the-electoral-college-slavery-myth.html … https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/1124740681858203649 …

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        15. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          25. My chief historical argument is that we've had the Electoral College in its current form since 1804. What other country's system for popular sovereignty has lasted that long? The world's longest continuous constitutional system is nothing to discard lightly.

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        16. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          26. Also the Solid South from 1880 to 1944 is an important part of the history. I dealt in this thread with the example of 1888, when the Electoral College prevented the lockstep Jim Crow South from re-electing Grover Cleveland.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1114267402513072128 …

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          Another example I didn't have room for: 1888. The ex-Confederate states (not very ex, in 1888) voted 61-37 for Cleveland. Rest of the country went 50-46 for Harrison. Cleveland won only 1 state (CT) that wasn't a slave state in 1860. Cleveland won pop. vote by 0.83% & lost.
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        17. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          27. Of course, the real scandal of the Solid South's role in Congress and presidential elections in those years is that Congress never enforced Section 2 of the 14th Amendment against them. But that's another day's story.

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        18. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          28. All of that said, while the Electoral College resolves popular vote pluralities, we do face a realistic possibility in 2020 of facing the Electoral College's real weakness: a tie decided by the House. Which would likely go to Trump, depending how the 2020 House races go.pic.twitter.com/Pjr3Rqbm7g

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        19. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          29. Sure. Lots of things would change about how elections are conducted, who runs, etc., and lots more rules would require changing. Which is why it's silly to critique the current rules with national popular vote figures https://twitter.com/JoeyTeevens/status/1124753308147691521 …

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        20. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          30. I guess some folks are still doing the thing where they call a plurality a majority? The main practical effect of the Electoral College is to resolve elections where there is no majority, like 2016.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1124844646537015296 …

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          Josh MarshallVerified account @joshtpm
          lol it’s remarkable how many nonsensical hypotheticals you can come up with if you don’t believe in majority rule. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124323414720876549 …
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        21. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          31. We should not count votes differently by race. I'm not sure why anyone in this century would argue we should. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1124850086398312448 …

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        22. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

          32. One thing I discovered in reading the responses is quite how many people on Twitter are unaware that Texas and Florida each have more people than New York.

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        23. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          33. "Meaningless subgroups"? Massachusetts and Virginia have both existed more than twice as long as Germany or Italy. https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1124851132684226560 …

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        24. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          34. Actually - and again, this is covered in my piece - very few developed countries choose a head of state by national popular plurality. The German system, like ours, has a federalist structure. https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/what-the-electoral-college-saves-us-from/ … https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/1124849420711936000 …

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        25. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 May 2019

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          35. Too many responses to get to everyone, but once you start adding runoffs, redrawing state boundaries, rewriting ballot & voting eligibility rules, you grasp what a radical reworking of the whole system is being proposed.https://twitter.com/yeselson/status/1124856977992179712 …

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          Richard Yeselson @yeselson
          I noticed @baseballcrank managed to ignore my response which asked him to imagine different state boundaries—quite easy to do—and noted that the plurality problem is easy to Dole with a runoff, say, two weeks after the first general election. C’mon—equal votes for everybody. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1124853172751732737 …
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